Book Reviews
Need a House? Call Ms. Mouse! by George Mendoza; illus. by Doris Susan SmithPrimary NYRB 48 pp. 6/23 9781681377360 $18.95Mouse Henrietta, a gifted architect, designs unique houses for all her friends, be they mammal or fish or bird or amphibian or even insect. Rabbit’s underground home has a large root...
The Cat at Night by Dahlov Ipcar; illus. by authorPreschool, Primary Tilbury 56 pp.9/23 9781958394229 $18.95e-book ed. 9781958394236 $18.95First published in 1969. When the farmer puts the cat out for the night, the cat doesn’t sleep; he goes exploring. Double-page spreads alternate between dark scenes showing silhouettes of objects, animals,...
Little Red Riding Hood by the Brothers Grimm; retold by Trina Schart Hyman; illus. by the retellerPrimary Holiday 32 pp.9/23 9780823456437 $18.99Hyman’s much-loved retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood” (a 1984 Caldecott Honor Book), with its endearing, pigeon-toed protagonist, is here reissued for a new generation of readers, with a...
My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat by Sandol Stoddard Warburg; designed and illus. by Remy CharlipPreschool, Primary Enchanted Lion 56 pp.7/23 9781592703852 $17.95First published in 1963. A playful, singsongy, almost stream-of-consciousness-like text (“He said / Mmm / He said / Umm / He said / Humm /...
Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough; illus. by Carole ByardPrimary, Intermediate Putnam 48 pp.4/23 9780593625071 $17.99Paper ed. 9780698114364 $8.99This is a welcome reissue of a classic of early African American picture books, first published in 1979, for which Byard won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. A lengthy text by today’s standards,...
Don’t Count Your Chicks by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire; illus. by the authorsPreschool, Primary University of Minnesota 40 pp.2/23 9781517914462 $17.95Based on a Scandinavian folktale, this lesser-known d’Aulaires’ picture book, first published in 1943, recalls Aesop’s fable “The Milkmaid and Her Pail.” An old woman walks into town to...
The New Friend by Charlotte Zolotow; illus. by Benjamin Chaud Primary Milky Way 48 pp. g 11/21 978-1-990252-01-3 $17.99 The narrator of this picture book had a dear friend and reminisces about the ordinary things they used to do together — until the “dear friend” found a “different friend.” Zolotow’s...
The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales compiled and illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen Intermediate NYRB 136 pp. g 11/21 978-1-68137-582-3 $24.95 e-book ed. 978-1-68137-604-2 $14.99 Here are collected (and reissued from the 1971 original) twelve literary fairy tales from several different European traditions, including Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale”;...
Grandmother’s Pigeon by Louise Erdrich; illus. by Jim LaMarche Primary, Intermediate University of Minnesota Press 32 pp. g 9/21 978-1-5179-1147-8 $17.95 “As it turned out, Grandmother was a far more mysterious woman than any of us knew,” begins this enigmatic and enjoyable picture book by Erdrich (The Birchbark House, rev....
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